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The Links (and Trade Machine comments)

By Bill Simmons
Page 2

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Before we tackle this week's links, I wanted to clear up some lingering questions and issues from last week's mailbag and Wednesday's Trade Machine blog. Issue No. 1: For the question about the Gordie Howe Hat Trick, I wrote that it was unfair how "the only athletes who ever got something named after them were Gordie, Tommy John, Larry Bird, Dick Fosbury and somebody else that I'm probably missing." Well, that "somebody" turned out to be seven people, including Johnny Pesky (the Pesky Pole), B ...

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